[tdf-discuss] Better PDF import?

2014-06-21 Thread Mateusz Zasuwik
Hello TDF members! I noticed you guys heavily work over many dead formats. But did anyone think about better PDF Import? I lost my data lately and I had open some old PDF files which turn out to be normal PDF (not hybrid PDF/ODT). I opened it via LO but document was rendered within Draw, not

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better PDF import?

2014-06-21 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 21/06/14 11:07, Mateusz Zasuwik wrote: I noticed you guys heavily work over many dead formats. But did anyone think about better PDF Import? I lost my data lately and I had open some old PDF files which turn out to be normal PDF (not hybrid PDF/ODT). I opened it via LO but document was

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better PDF import?

2014-06-21 Thread Terrence Enger
On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 11:22 +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote: PDF is based on PostScript, which is a page description language, and as such is extremely difficult to convert into an editable document. I have heard about OCR, but I have never been desperate enough to try it. Likely there is some

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better PDF import?

2014-06-21 Thread Toki
On 6/21/2014 11:30 AM, Terrence Enger wrote: I have heard about OCR, OCR usually manages to remove all presentation markup. It can also remove sentence, and paragraph differentiators. From my POV, if the content is in PDF format, and the person needs another format, they can OCR it.